GRAVES v. UNITED STATES

No. 19-CM-418.

245 A.3d 963 (2021)

Rickey GRAVES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 25, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Light , Washington, for appellant.

John P. Mannarino , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Jessie K. Liu , United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and Elizabeth Trosman , Assistant United States Attorney, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before Blackburne-Rigsby, Chief Judge, and Glickman, Associate Judge, and Washington, Senior Judge.


Rickey Graves appeals his misdemeanor convictions in a bench trial for assault1 and second-degree theft.2 He contends, inter alia, that the trial court violated his constitutional rights by not allowing him to testify that he acted in self-defense, which...

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